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> People dropping out of engineering isn't anything new [0].

What is new is: students were told all their life that “they’ll make it” in life.

Spoiler alert: not everyone does. Most will never make 7 figure compensation as a SWE, for example.




I think if the average person thinks the goal for making it in life as a 7 figure comp, 99% of people will never be happy.




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